Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.